Motivate me please!

[Nigelnaturist]

reading your posts I can see how addictive cycling is, - and you all sound like a bunch of mad buggers - whats this with hills !.and wet .
I've got that deprived feeling, any good days on the weekends I've been to busy and on weekdays its pitch black by the time I finish - and I don,t cycle in the dark. - but really tempting mornings!
so its hit the exercise bike every night - but I want to get out on the beast

Cree XM-L T6 I hope to have this tomorrow, but from what I am lead to believe, its pretty bright.
I quite like the rain, the hills are getting better, if not faster.

 

[mrbadexample]

15 yesterday, 16 today. Got a bit lost today - after I climbed Sedgley Hill (third time this week ) I went off to add a few more miles. Ended up sailing down Himley Road at about 30mph without touching the pedals, thinking "oh bugger, I've got to climb back up this in a minute". The Strava segment reckons it's 0.8miles at 5.9% but I went further than where the segment starts. Quite a good workout when I'd already done Sedgley Hill. I wasn't sure I'd make it without stopping, but maintained my undefeated record against hills.

Don't think I'll get chance to do much at the weekend because Saturday is rugby day, and Sunday is therefore hangover day.

 

[Old Plodder]

Good going mrbadexample.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

15 yesterday, 16 today. Got a bit lost today - after I climbed Sedgley Hill (third time this week ) I went off to add a few more miles. Ended up sailing down Himley Road at about 30mph without touching the pedals, thinking "oh bugger, I've got to climb back up this in a minute". The Strava segment reckons it's 0.8miles at 5.9% but I went further than where the segment starts. Quite a good workout when I'd already done Sedgley Hill. I wasn't sure I'd make it without stopping, but maintained my undefeated record against hills.

Don't think I'll get chance to do much at the weekend because Saturday is rugby day, and Sunday is therefore hangover day.

Nice one, its also remembrance day.

 

[mrbadexample]

I am going back to slay that beast...this week.

The beast dead yet then?

 

[RWright]

The beast dead yet then?

Not yet . I am going tomorrow. It has been a little late when I have been getting home and after work traffic on that particular narrow road can make things a little more interesting than I want to deal with. The weekends are perfect. I have been practicing for it though, taking a lot of hills that I normally do on the small front ring on the large front ring, getting a little more standing time while climbing. Standing and climbing is something I still need a lot of work on.

 

[mrbadexample]

Standing and climbing is something I still need a lot of work on.

Good luck when you have a tilt at it then.

I am completely unable to stand on the pedals whilst climbing. I can barely do it on the flat. Hopefully I'll get it back one day.

Just 9 today to get home, but went up Sedgley Hill again to start off. This was the first time I had to stop before getting to the top. No, I'm not getting worse. I spotted a £1 on the roadside and I'm a Yorkshireman.

DaveyM, it's about time you had a weekend off, right?

 

[mrbadexample]

Oh Dave.

Bloody well done mate, that's exceptional.

 

[DaveyM]

DaveyM, it's about time you had a weekend off, right?

Well lucky for you I have had all week off and you have caught up nicely I see.

I may have sneaked a couple of miles in today though...
Just think of the motivation for this week to get ahead

 

[RWright]

The beast has been slain no more like tamed given a quick punch. I did climb it today...without getting off and walking too! The bad news is that it is still a beast, even on a bicycle half the weight of the one I tried the first time on, and three months additional saddle time. I am glad I didn't have a heart rate monitor on when I did it, it would have been at DEFCON 1.

I had a great ride though, got in just under 19 miles on the ride @ 13.34 MPH in perfect riding weather.

I was gone for about an hour and a half and Davey now has a metric century.
I am obviously going to have to step up my game to hang around with y'all.....very nice ride Davey!

 

[DaveyM]

The beast has been slain no more like tamed given a quick punch. I did climb it today...without getting off and walking too! The bad news is that it is still a beast, even on a bicycle half the weight of the one I tried the first time on, and three months additional saddle time. I am glad I didn't have a heart rate monitor on when I did it, it would have been at DEFCON 1.

I had a great ride though, got in just under 19 miles on the ride @ 13.34 MPH in perfect riding weather.

I was gone for about an hour and a half and Davey now has a metric century.
I am obviously going to have to step up my game to hang around with y'all.....very nice ride Davey!

Glad to hear thet you gave that hill a good thrashing
As for my 100km, I wouldn't worry too much as you are still about 400 MILES! ahead in the cycling log group although we'll have to see what we can do about this

 

[Nigelnaturist]

The beast has been slain no more like tamed given a quick punch. I did climb it today...without getting off and walking too! The bad news is that it is still a beast, even on a bicycle half the weight of the one I tried the first time on, and three months additional saddle time. I am glad I didn't have a heart rate monitor on when I did it, it would have been at DEFCON 1.

I had a great ride though, got in just under 19 miles on the ride @ 13.34 MPH in perfect riding weather.

I was gone for about an hour and a half and Davey now has a metric century.
I am obviously going to have to step up my game to hang around with y'all.....very nice ride Davey!

Well done. I need to catch Davey up as well. Well I just passed 2,500 miles today.

 

[RWright]

I got ten more miles in today. I went to the bank and on the way home I went by a local greenway and rode on it. It is not very long, only about 2 miles long but it is very nice with very smooth pavement about 10 or 12 feet wide. I have read that there are long term plans to extend it out into the country and make it a 28 mile loop but I have not heard anything more specific regarding a timetable for completion. I think they do it in sections then wait until more federal funding is available.

Today I noticed that there has been some clearing of trees and some survey stakes put down at the end of the trail they plan to extend. Having this greenway completed would be excellent motivation for me. I think it will also have to go over "the beast" . I know many of the strong riders here would laugh at the difficulty of it, but to me at my stage it is one of the harder hills I have done. I hope it isn't so far in the future I laugh at it too. I am going to start riding that route more often.

 

[mrbadexample]

RWright, the greenway sounds nice. Could do with a bit more of that round here.

DaveyM, you've killed me. You're so far into the distance now I can't see you any more! As if the metric ton (should that be tonne, as it's metric?) wasn't enough, you go out the next day and stick another 10 in. I'll keep plodding away, but it'll be a long time before I see distances of that magnitude.

My problem is partly that I use the bike instead of the car, so going out for the sake of going out is less enticing. I don't mind going out for an hour or so, but after that I start losing interest. I see you did your ton with a group - maybe I need someone to work with?

16 today.

 

[DaveyM]

That was a one off.

I did enjoy the riding with others.
So I am thinking about doing a big group ride next year either;
the Great North Bike Ride http://greatnorthbikeride.com/Home/Index.html (64 miles flat)
or the Cyclone https://virginmoneycyclone.co.uk/CycloneChallenge.asp (66 miles and hilly)
this I hope will keep me motivated to put the miles in.

Feel free to throw your bike in the car or on the train and come up and take part - I have a spare bed or a nice caravan you can kip in

Hows that for motivation!